Final Exam

Question 1

Where does police solidarity begin?

Answer 1

Solidarity is culturally transmitted through pre and in-service training, where trainers frequently assess the ability of officers to follow protocols

Question 2

What is “dramaturgy”?

Answer 2

powerful solidarity rites that are designed to display to the world unity and unswerving loyalty

Question 3

Front stage v. back stage.

Answer 3

Front stage is the streets and back stage is hidden such as the station

Question 4

Two “camps” for researching police attitudes: which one is the dominant thought today?

Answer 4

The police socialization perspective is dominant today.

Question 5

Components of the culture of policing.

Answer 5

Generations, small town traditions, military personnel universities.

Question 6

Solidarity is sentiment.

Answer 6

officers are sentimental toward other officers

Question 7

Academicians v. adjuncts as professors

Answer 7

Adjunct professors bring experience and wisdom to the university culture

Question 8

Developing solidarity as officers’ careers progress.

Answer 8

New officers learn from other officers as their career progresses.

Question 9

Stress training v. academic training.

Answer 9

Stress training was boot camp style training of the Vietnam era. Academic is a learning and testing style of training that is used today.

Question 10

3 dimensions of solidarity.

Answer 10

1. The solidarity of partners.
2. The enforcement mandate contributes to solidarity.
3. The darkness of solidarity.

Question 11

Knapp Commission: NYPD.

Answer 11

An investigation into corruption in New York, uncovered patterns of pervasive corruption hidden behind a wall of solidarity.

Question 12

“Grass eaters.”

Answer 12

Low-Key passive corruption

Question 13

“Meat eaters.”

Answer 13

serious corruption when large numbers of minor offenders were present but fearful of exposing their own petty criminality.

Question 14

How can solidarity be dissolved?

Answer 14

When internal affairs goes after corruption

Question 15

CMPD police academy cheating scandal.

Answer 15

Academy classes passed around a study guide that in fact was a cheat sheet.

Question 16

Police: outsiders or insiders?

Answer 16

Police see themselves as outsiders, different from citizens, apart and special.

Question 17

Solidarity v. Outsiders.

Answer 17

The themes of solidarity and of outsiders pose different kinds of questions about culture.

Question 18

Outsiders are invisible.

Answer 18

Staying invisible helps officers by staying out of trouble

Question 19

Postulates of invisibility.

Answer 19

officers protect themselves from prying outside eyes. They particularly focus on departmental brass but, on the whole, they act as guides for avoiding scrutiny.

Question 20

Outsiders are secretive.

Answer 20

Secrecy and the public, secrecy and brass

Question 21

Why is it more difficult today to keep things secret?

Answer 21

Technology

Question 22

Deception v. Lying v. Telling the Truth.

Answer 22

Deception is accepted in policing

Question 23

Three patterns of lies.

Answer 23

1. Accepted
2. Tolerated
3. Deviant.

Question 24

Four types of lies.

Answer 24

.1. Arrest

2. Media
3. Search Warrant.
4. Testemonial

Question 25

Mapp v. Ohio (1961): The Exclusionary Rule.

Answer 25

The exclusionary rule

Question 26

Why do victims and witnesses lie?

Answer 26

To protect themselves, to avoid looking foolish, to protect others from being arrested

Question 27

Victimless crimes.

Answer 27

Drug, prostitution, speeding, etc

Question 28

General deterrence.

Answer 28

.All are effected by general deterrence.

Question 29

Specific deterrence.

Answer 29

.One person is affected by general deterrence

Question 30

Does our legal system deter criminals?

Answer 30

.The legal system does not deter

Question 31

Van Maanen’s 2 Corollaries.

Answer 31

1. The legal system is untrustworthy. | 2. Stronger punishment will deter..

Question 32

Why do District Attorneys dismiss or drop cases / charges?

Answer 32

The evidence is not strong enough, they do not believe that they can win the case, due process mistakes were made.

Question 33

“BS” defined.

Answer 33

.The corrosive sentiment line officers have towards managements use of authority and invocation of rules

Question 34

What is responsible for the “profusion of BS?”

Answer 34

The Brass.

Question 35

What determines a person’s authority: rank or position?

Answer 35

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Question 36

Goal displacement (described).

Answer 36

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Question 37

What do bureaucracies tend to become preoccupied with: the problems or the symptoms of the problems?

Answer 37

Symptoms of problems.

Question 38

BS survival: 5 modes of adaptation.

Answer 38

1. CYA - Cover your ass 2. Humor and Bullshit 3. Clique Bullshit 4. Cynicism 5. Voluntary Resignation

Question 39

Cynicism: a time line.

Answer 39

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Question 40

What do officers realize once they’ve experienced the “outside world?”

Answer 40

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Question 41

Is felonious death common for police officers?

Answer 41

No.

Question 42

What happens when felonious police officer deaths occur?

Answer 42

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Question 43

Police expectations of the media.

Answer 43

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Question 44

Peer support: pros and cons.

Answer 44

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Question 45

What is the most potent, forceful symbol for a police officer?

Answer 45

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Question 46

Funerals are for the public; for the cops; for collective grief.

Answer 46

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Question 47

Manning’s 5 aspects of police funerals that carry symbolic meaning for the public.

Answer 47

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Question 48

Solidarity is reinforced, but to what extent?

Answer 48

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Question 49

Police funerals: symbolism.

Answer 49

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